Word: swindler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through the recovery of stolen goods that Abscam started. It grew out of a rather routine undercover scheme in the New York area to recover stolen securities and paintings. In return for a favorable recommendation to reduce his sentence, FBI agents persuaded Mel Weinberg, a convicted swindler, to help them get thieves to resell their loot to the FBI'S fake fences. The agents used the ruse of claiming to represent a Middle East sheik interested in purchasing the stolen goods...
...accepting $50,000, and Jenrette was recorded later acknowledging receipt of the money. The only Republican tagged so far is Florida Congressman Richard Kelly, 55, one of the House's most erratic legislators. Kelly apparently learned of the available cash from a chain starting with a convicted stock swindler and leading through an accountant and an East Coast mobster, all three of whom had expected to acquire $50,000 each from Sheik Habib. Only Kelly, however, received a delivery. The cameras in the W Street house caught him stuffing $25,000-200 $100 bills and 250 $20 bills-into...